Weather forecast plot

[123-fake-st]

Authors

123-fake-st

Links

github | LinkedIn

Full description

Weather forecast plot

A plot showing a 7-day weather forecast.

View the jupyter notebook for the code and a walkthrough of generating this plot including several prototypes working up to the final plot.

The code uses plotnine's geom_path, geom_label, and watermark to build this plot.
Two geom_paths are layered for the temperature ranges.
scale and theme settings polish the plot's look.

Motivation

While working out what to do in this project I was motivated by these factors:

1. Provide visual demonstration of something where there isn't a visual example in the plotnine documentation's reference, gallery, or tutorials pages
2. Make something beautiful
3. Make something that I didn't know how to make already
4. Explain it well

The data for this plot is quite simple and is very different from the large data sets I work with on a typical day.
However, creating the polished plot has some interesting challenges and I hope that even many experienced plotnine users will see this plot, wonder how it was made, and want to check out the code to understand it.

Other notes

I placed slightly tweaked code from the jupyter notebook into a python function that you can import and call to generate plots by providing your own forecast data.

from plot_forecast import plot_forecast
plot_forecast('./data/Madison.csv', location='Madison, WI', outfile='Madison.png')

Code repository

repo | jupyter notebook | README

[kyleGrealis]

this really looks amazing and your .ipynb is well-documented!

[123-fake-st]

Thank you! I genuinely appreciate the feedback: most of my work doesn't get to go out in public and I was waffling about putting in a submission; I'm glad that I entered something.

[kyleGrealis]

Nah it's great! And I picked up a few things. I'll be finalizing my submission by early next week. I'm motivated to enter after seeing the good work

[Ringomed]

Very pretty visualization!

[has2k1]

[EconomiCurtis]

Ahoy @123-fake-st ,
I am one of the contest organizers.
If you'd like, we'd be happy to send you a little Plotnine and Posit care package of hex-shaped stickers. Just a small thanks for taking part. https://forms.gle/M8QmM286MSHbkDRd7

[123-fake-st]

Thanks @EconomiCurtis! It appears that this link didn't get commented onto the submissions that are past page 1. Please don't forget our colleagues on the other pages 😄

[Lerac1275]

This is so well done. Amazing!

[has2k1]

@123-fake-st, The winning submission has been announced here. Thank you for taking part in the contest.

[123-fake-st]

@has2k1 thank you so much for your work on plotnine and hosting the contest. There were many great submissions and I learned a lot.